Atonement
[ə'təʊnm(ə)nt] or [ə'tonmənt]
Definition
(noun.) compensation for a wrong; 'we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store'.
Checked by Darren--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; agreement; concord.
(n.) Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. [Rare.] Reconciliation, pacification, concord, agreement.[2]. Expiation, propitiation, satisfaction, reparation, amends, peace-offering, atoning sacrifice.
Checker: Mario
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reconciliation, expiation, compensation, preparation, satisfaction, recompense
ANT:Alienation, separation, enmity, estrangement, division, offense, transgression
Typist: Lycurgus
Unserious Contents or Definition
Means joyous communing with friends, and speculators need not fear any drop in stocks. Courting among the young will meet with happy consummation. The sacrifice or atonement of another for your waywardness, is portentous of the humiliation of self or friends through your open or secret disregard of duty. A woman after this dream is warned of approaching disappointment.
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Examples
- And I wish to make atonement to you as the one still remaining who has suffered a loss through me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now has he made atonement to you--with his life! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I am here to make atonement to you, before I meet your mother in the world beyond the grave. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I owe you this, he said, signing the paper, as some atonement for what passed between us earlier in the evening. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- May I be spared to make some atonement. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Mariannenor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Though it is difficult, said Jane, to guess in what way he can mean to make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to his credit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It is never too late,' said Rose, 'for penitence and atonement. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is the atonement that she is longing to make, poor girl, after having innocently and inevitably wronged him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My thoughts have driven me here--I want to make atonement--I want to undo all I can of the harm I once did. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The grace of voice and manner with which she made him that atonement had its due effect on the Sergeant. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena's deliverance may be received as an atonement. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- As to you, friend Watson, I owe you every atonement for having allowed your natural curiosity to remain so long unsatisfied. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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